We describe Web-a-Where, a system for associating geography with Web pages. Web-a-Where locates mentions of places and determines the place each name refers to. In addition, it as...
The QA campaign at CLEF [1], was manly the same as that proposed last year. The results and the analyses reported by last year's participants suggested that the changes introd...
This paper presents a general framework for building classifiers that deal with short and sparse text & Web segments by making the most of hidden topics discovered from larges...
We present new direct data analysis showing that dynamically-built context-dependent phrasal translation lexicons are more useful resources for phrase-based statistical machine tr...
We propose a framework MIC (Multiple Inclusion Criterion) for learning sparse models based on the information theoretic Minimum Description Length (MDL) principle. MIC provides an...
Paramveer S. Dhillon, Dean P. Foster, Lyle H. Unga...